To Absent Friends - John Lewis

John Lewis

1940 - 2020

At the Pettus Bridge  

Selma, Alabama

It is not often that we can recognize a genuine American Hero in our midst, and we lost one them this past week when U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia died.

A veteran of the American civil rights movement of the twentieth century, Lewis marched along side Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham and Selma and other places throughout the country through those turbulent days.  He was the youngest person to speak at the 1963 March on Washington.  He was 23 years old at the time.  Upon his election to the Presidency in 2008, Barack Obama said that he got there on the "shoulders of John Lewis."

We may never see his like again.

RIP John Lewis.

Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom